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IMPORTANT ADVICE FOR AUTHORS AND SERIES EDITORS ON THE FILM/MEDIA LIST: Do not respond to the letter or accept the new contracts proposed by Taylor & Francis at htis point (unles, of course, you want to). A response is being coordinated. Additional conversations scheduled for the NECS conference.
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I’ve learned so much from @rymontgomery.bsky.social, who is doing excellent work on the French queer filmmaker Lionel Soukaz. À lire absolument
Brilliant keynote for our graduate symposium delivered by an old friend, Damien Pollard. A fascinating theorisation of the voice in sound cinema, from the dubbed voices that haunt the Italian giallo to the voiceover MCs of Ugandan ‘wakaliwood’
Sexual Ecologies: Space, nature and queer cinema.
🌿 On Friday 30 May 2025, @maguiregeoff.bsky.social and @julesod.bsky.social host 'Sexual ecologies: Space, nature and queer cinema', a workshop focussing on the queer turn in ecocritical media.
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Almost ready to launch Hotels. If you’re around London on Wednesday evening, please come join: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/hotels-...
Check out the CFP for this year’s World Picture conference hosted in collaboration w/ brilliant colleagues at UvA @jacobengelberg.bsky.social @rhysteven.bsky.social & Abe Geil in November! necs.org/news/calls-f...
Book cover of Capitalism Hates You: Marxism and the New Horror Film by Joshua Gooch. Red-tinted face of horned bull, balefully staring straight out. Title above and author below in gold type.
Book cover of The Seduction of Space: Cruising French Cinema by Jules O'Dwyer. Film still of theater interior with sparse patrons watching a person before a white screen. Around still is white text on purple field.
Excellent new titles out today:
Capitalism Hates You: Marxism and the New Horror Film by @joshuagooch.bsky.social
The Seduction of Space: Cruising French Cinema by @julesod.bsky.social
second day of ‘Models’ conference with WP & ICI, Berlin. Such a pleasure to be in presence of such brilliant friends and colleagues .
hugely inspiring first day of World Picture conference ‘23 at the ICI, Berlin
Details of this year’s World Picture conference at the ICI, Berlin are now out here: www.ici-berlin.org/events/model... registration opens 1 November. Hope to see you there!
reminder that World Picture ‘23 takes place at the ICI, Berlin on 17-18 November. Keynotes by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky and Final Party / Barry Johnston. (free) registration opens Nov 1. see you there 👀
world picture Issue 14 on theme of ‘Spell’ (Summer 2023) is now live on our new site. Ten new pieces, plus info on our upcoming conference: worldpicturejournal.com